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So what is it that local Western New Yorkers do to not just get through the winter months, but to embrace it? What is it that makes someone want to reside in Western New York not despite the winter but BECAUSE of it? I imagine hockey and ice skating is one. But what else? Maybe there are good indoor things to embrace as well? Your thoughts appreciated.
Unless you go skiing or enjoy getting hammered indoors every night for months on end to get through the snowy misery, you're better off moving south like the thousands of NYers who leave each year.
Unless you go skiing or enjoy getting hammered indoors every night for months on end to get through the snowy misery, you're better off moving south like the thousands of NYers who leave each year.
I moved and hated it, that’s why Charlotte is called south buffalo to the transplants whom all relocated there.
Unless you go skiing or enjoy getting hammered indoors every night for months on end to get through the snowy misery, you're better off moving south like the thousands of NYers who leave each year.
Sad but true. I visit WNY 3-4 weeks per year, and it is the same old with everyone doing nothing but going to the bar. Much worse during winter. I found it quite boring.
Moved down south and lost 60 pounds. It will be 70 degrees at my house this weekend I'll be grilling and cleaning up the yard.
I swim outside 7 months out of the year, and play tennis and golf weekly, and have started hiking.
There is so much to do, I am still exploring after six years of being down south. My quality of life is much higher, and the heat doesn't bother me because central air works fine.
^This or people just do things indoors. Man, you would think that winter is just a constant snow fest.
I definitely wouldn't say New Yorkers are tougher. What I've found us that a humans body will acclimate to the climate in which they live. New Yorkers are used to long and brutal winters--so winter isn't as long and brutal to most New Yorkers...
Conversely, most southerners are used to extended warm and even hot weather, with exotic bugs to boot, so the weather isn't as brutal to them. It's both ways...
I'm sorry, one if my pet peeves is the "New Yorkers are tougher" than everyone else stereotype. That wasn't my reality and I have a litany of examples I lived through in New York but I won't divert the thread...
Winter is a constant snow fest, ck. Again, your perspective is based on being of and from there. Only few places in the US get as much snow as Upstate New York. To act as if that amount of snow and the length of winter is common to the majority Americans is asinine. The winters are long and you can literally see snow anywhere from September to May (and I saw snow in both of those months there so it isn't uncommon)...
Personally, I'm not one of these people to beat up on or call out people for their weather preferences. But everyone doesn't want to stay indoors or be forces to brave harsh elements in the winter if they want to do something...
That’s funny I was the only one cutting my grass when it was hot and very humid when I lived in the south. All the natives were inside. Lol
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